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Four-year-old Brady McLaughlin needs a bone marrow transplant and none of his immediate family is a match, including his twin sister. So, the McLaughlins have teamed up with an organization called Sharing America's Marrow, which on Monday came to Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton to find a match – if not for Brady, then for someone else, with blood cancer or Brady's problem, severe aplastic anemia. Someone who needs new bone marrow to live. "Siblings only have a 25 percent chance, so we knew it was a bit of a crapshoot," said Brady's mother Kelly McLaughlin. "We thought he'd have a match in the [national bone marrow] registry, but 8 out of...

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PERSONAL: 65; married 29 years to Beatriz, from Chile; two children Alan, a chef, and Maria, who works with...